Top 100 Pretending To Be Quotes
#1. I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
Jacki Weaver
#2. I'll be a girl ... pretending to be a boy ... pretending to be a girl. The thought alone is enough to make me dizzy.
Stacey Jay
#3. He isn't what he's pretending to be with her. I watch him all the time. I'm going to be there when he stops pretending. I'm going to be her bulletproof vest, her shield, her fallen fucking angel, whether she wants one or not. He's pretending he's almost human. He's no more human than me.
Karen Marie Moning
#4. She never felt like she belonged anywhere,except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.
Rainbow Rowell
#5. Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.
Kristen Stewart
#6. Laura, why do you go around pretending to be Julie Andrews , when you're actually Hyacinth Bucket?
Harriet Evans
#7. As for his hobby, drawing, he was better at that than most artists alive today and I always knew he was really a great young artist pretending to be withdrawn so people would leave him alone, also so people wouldn't ask him to get a job.
Jack Kerouac
#8. Journalism is a bunch of dorks pretending to be alpha males.
Tom Rachman
#9. There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.
J.W. Lord
#10. My dear,' said the old men gently, 'I think that you are repeating what you have heard older people say. You are pretending to be touchy; but you are not really. Stop being so tiresome, and tell me instead what part of the church you want to see. To take you to it will be a real pleasure.
E. M. Forster
#11. I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should get upset. America is spending a lot of time and money pretending to be searching for people who we're not really searching for. That is enough to get someone angry.
Richard Shepard
#12. And I'm sure everyone else would too if you only allowed them to see more of who you really are, rather than pretending to be someone you're not!
Adele Rose
#13. I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.
Megan Hart
#14. She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.
Stacy Hawkins Adams
#15. This is different, pretending to be me - " "Well, none of us really fancy it, Harry," said Fred earnestly.
J.K. Rowling
#16. Don't go to the wraithland," he said. "It's too dangerous."
I smirked. "Why, Black Knife. You almost sound worried."
...
"It's not your responsibility... It should be a worldwide effort, not just the effort of one girl pretending to be a boy.
Jodi Meadows
#17. She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.
Eloisa James
#18. To really know who you are, your core self, you need to know who you are pretending to be and who you are not, and the way to heal is the same way to grow in awareness.
Aleta Edwards
#19. Pretending to be someone you're not is like kissing a live grenade.
It feels smooth with your eyes closed, but remember, brother, like it or
not, you're still kissing Death. September Young, Into the flames
Mel Bossa
#20. It hit me then that I just couldn't do it anymore. The lying, the hiding, the pretending to be okay with it. I was done.
Dahlia Adler
#21. If it doesn't work horizontally as prose ... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
Robert Breault
#22. Bella you are my life now
hate me for who I am I don't care at least im not pretending to be someone im not- Kristen Stewart
Stephenie Meyer
#23. People are afraid of anybody who is different: It makes them worry everyone else is different too, and just pretending to be all the same. James
Cassandra Clare
#24. I heard in my own voice the tulmult of a young man playig a role, uneasily, repackaging black R&B music from America, relying on gimmicky outfits, and pretending to be wild & free when in reality he needed to be looked after by his mother.
Pete Townshend
#25. I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
Ben Kingsley
#26. I loved this woman. You can't just turn off that kind of feeling. But I loved a person who didn't exist. I loved someone Diana was pretending to be. Maybe the signs were there, but I refused to see them. Maybe I didn't want to see them.
James Patterson
#27. This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?
Gayle Forman
#28. Why is it childish to want something better? asked Frank sulkily. It's like pretending to be content is the same as actually being content. I'm not going to pre tent. - Frank
Chris Priestley
#29. Seriously, you've been pretending to be a human for six months and you haven't heard of the movie Star Wars?
Bree Despain
#30. When someone is pretending to be something, or hiding who they are or what they believe, they're really more ... protecting themselves.
Kelsey Sutton
#31. The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.
Tristen Gaspadarek
#32. There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
Desmond Tutu
#33. I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust.
Andy Kindler
#34. I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting skill beyond the effort to appear unperturbed in the face of the inexplicable, which is as far as I can see one of the central tasks of adulthood.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#35. Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.
James Hunter
#36. I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.
Heidi Montag
#37. I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one's cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.
Sloane Crosley
#38. It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.
Dawn Gluskin
#39. Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.
Rob Sheffield
#40. You're a defiant act of creation. You're a whole solar system pretending to be a person.
Elisabeth Hewer
#41. Confidence is very important - even pretending to be Confident. If you make a Mistake but do not let your Opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the Mistake.
Viswanathan Anand
#42. Oh my God. I just got dumped by a red headed mortician in a funeral home named Crummy's, after pretending to be a circus freak at a visitation I had just crashed. I was pretty sure there'd be no bouncing back from this. -Dakota Bombay
Leslie Langtry
#43. I'm lying here in a tent, pretending to be asleep but actually fearing for my life as I watch a bunny murderer have a conversation with our campfire.
Amy Plum
#44. Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
Austin Kleon
#45. I love you," she whispered.
He stroked his hand down her back. "Yep, you do."
"You're supposed to say it back," she said, pretending to be offended because the silliness kept the fear/hope at bay.
"Why?" He scowled down at her. "You know you're my heartbeat.
Nalini Singh
#46. Just tell me, baby."
"Do not - "
"I'm allowed to call you 'baby'
when I'm pretending to be a criminal. That's how criminals talk,
Audrey Bell
#47. I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart.
Brian Andreas
#48. We were all too good at pretending to be normal, like the world would end if anyone realized who we actually were inside--
Jung Yun
#49. Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
John Hurt
#50. Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
James Gandolfini
#51. Be genuine and authentic, so when a guy starts to catch feelings, it's with the real you and not someone you are pretending to be.
Sheri Gaskins
#52. Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand Russell
#53. Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?
Jeff Daniels
#54. We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.
Tommy Tran
#55. Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.
Randall Mann
#56. He cared little for painting. In fact, he hadn't stood before an easel since school days. But if pretending to be interested in art kept a genuine smile on Amelia Barrett's face, he would learn to like it.
Sarah E. Ladd
#57. I've always loved movies and animation. When I was little, I was always pretending to be some alter ego superhero. For years it was Ultraman, ninjas, Spiderman and other cool super heroes.
Ryan Potter
#58. I've always thought you are what you are and you shouldn't pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you're pretending to be.
Julian Barnes
#59. There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
David Letterman
#60. When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.
Aneurin Barnard
#61. He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory ... it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#62. Doctor: 'I am not a hero.
Robin Hood: 'Well, neither am I, but if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name. Perhaps we will both be stories and may those stories never end.
Mark Gatiss
#63. That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
Andy Samberg
#64. Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#65. I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.
David Klass
#66. Worst thing can happen in work place is, to work with less knowledge, pretending to be good, taking others creditability, or in simple words 'Stupid Office Politicians'.
Vivek Thangaswamy
#67. He did an excellent Tarik impression, bringing his voice low and softly accenting the ends of his sentences. Scrubber, his raccoon, flailed and squirmed on the ground, pretending to be Monte himself. It was a light moment in the
Eliot Schrefer
#68. Well, it's like this: if you're forced into having sex with someone you dislike, you make your mind blank - you pretend to be somewhere else, you tend to forget your body, you hate your body. That's what we do here. We are constantly pretending to be somewhere else - we either plan it or dream it.
Azar Nafisi
#69. Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#70. I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
Orson Scott Card
#71. I wanted someone to know that before I started a life pretending to be less than everyone around me.
Ally Condie
#72. I clenched my jaw as hard as I could. It wasn't much of a stretch to keep pretending to be angry, but I tried to go all Method actor on them. Eat your heart out, Sir Ian.
Jim Butcher
#73. We are here for the evolution of our soul. This evolution happens through the management of both the ups and downs of physical life. Evolution is halted by pretending to be happy all the time
Renae A. Sauter
#74. I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.
Kevin Moffett
#75. A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.
Harry Houdini
#76. Pretending to be normal made life so difficult.
Daryl Gregory
#78. One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character?
Ernest Cline
#79. I don't like doing interviews. I'm not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.
Jared Leto
#80. I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.
Geena Davis
#81. Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
James Altucher
#82. Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#83. If you want to be saved and be a Christian, then stay open to correction. Preachers have to rebuke, or they should leave their position. The Christian who won't accept correction is only pretending to be a Christian.
Martin Luther
#84. It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.
Rich Mullins
#85. Call them what you want. Garden gnomes. Lawn ornaments. Little evil outdoor statuary hell-bent on world domination. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that, right now, they're hiding in plain sight, pretending to be symbols of merriment and good will.
Chuck Sambuchino
#86. Renly thought she was absurd. A woman dressed in man's mail, pretending to be a knight." "If he'd ever seen her in pink satin and Myrish lace, he would not have complained.
George R R Martin
#87. Men hunt by pretending to be the brothers of the prey they seek, and women hunt by impersonating the mothers of their prey.
Patricia Storace
#88. Acting's the best job there is. Pretending to be someone you're not is good fun. It's also a non-ageist profession, and you get to work all over the world with people you admire.
Sean Pertwee
#89. Ulrich Van Holtz continued to read the latest tome on world economics, pretending to be bored, but in truth absolutely fascinated!
Shelly Laurenston
#91. All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.
Margaret Atwood
#92. No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben
Ron Koertge
#93. To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#94. Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
Samuel R. Delany
#95. In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.
Tina Fey
#96. Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.
George R R Martin
#97. I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
Werner Herzog
#98. Why would I do that? Why would I put all this effort into pretending to be ... less than I am.
Caitlin Moran
#99. You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.
Holly Black
#100. If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.
Eugene Mirman
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